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and bring ye a fat calf, and slay ye, and eat we, and make we feast.
24
For this my son was dead, and hath lived again; he perished, and is found. And all men began to eat [And all began for to eat gladly].
25
But his elder son was in the field; and when he came, and approached to the house [and nighed to the house], he heard a symphony and a crowd.
26
And he called one of the servants, and asked, what these things were.
27
And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father slew a fat calf [+and thy father hath slain a fat calf/and thy father slew a fatted calf], for he received him safe.
28
And he was wroth, and would not come in. Therefore his father went out, and began to pray him.
29
And he answered to his father, and said, Lo! so many years I serve thee, and I never brake thy commandment; and thou never gave to me a kid, that I with my friends should have eaten. [+And he answering to his father, said, Lo! so many years I serve to thee, and I never passed over, or brake, thy commandment; and thou never hast given to me a kid, that I should eat largely with my friends.]
30
But after that this thy son, that hath devoured his substance with whores, came, thou hast slain to him a fat calf. [+But after that this thy son, which devoured his substance with whores, came, thou hast slain to him a fatted calf.]
31
And he said to him, Son, thou art evermore with me [Son, thou art ever with me], and all my things be thine.
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But it behooved to make feast, and to have joy; for this thy brother was dead, and lived again [and liveth again]; he perished, and is found.